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BEST OF THE WEB: How's Slick Willy gonna explain this one? Photos emerge of Bill Clinton receiving neck massage from Jeffrey Epstein victim

Signs of the Times - Best of the Web / 5h

Bill Clinton grins with pleasure as he enjoys an intimate neck massage with a young Jeffrey Epstein victim in never-before-seen photographs obtained exclusively by DailyMail.com. The troubling pictures are an ill-timed reminder of Clinton's links to Epstein as the former President, 72, prepares to endorse Joe Biden tonight at the Democratic Convention. Clinton traveled numerous times on the dead p

BEST OF THE WEB: Red landslide ahead? 27-year-old dissident journalist Laura Loomer wins Florida congressional primary for 21st District

Signs of the Times - Best of the Web / 5h

Incumbent Lois Frankel and social media firebrand Laura Loomer won their respective primaries Tuesday, setting the tone for what will be a fiery, nationally watched congressional election in November. Frankel, a former West Palm Beach mayor seeking her fifth term in U.S. House District 21, beat newcomer Guido Weiss by a landslide to win the Democratic nomination. Frankel captured 86.40% of the vot

BEST OF THE WEB: New Zealand's high court rules first covid lockdown UNLAWFUL

Signs of the Times - Best of the Web / 7h

New Zealand's High Court has ruled that the country's first nine-day, Covid-19 lockdown from March 26 to April 3 was unlawful as it infringed on people's rights and freedoms without a legal basis. The High Court of New Zealand ruled on Wednesday that the country's stay-at-home orders, under threat of punishment, were in breach of civil liberties after lawyer Andrew Borrowdale launched a suit again

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BEST OF THE WEB: Red landslide ahead? 27-year-old dissident journalist Laura Loomer Wins Florida Congressional Primary for 21st District

Signs of the Times - Best of the Web / 7h

Incumbent Lois Frankel and social media firebrand Laura Loomer won their respective primaries Tuesday, setting the tone for what will be a fiery, nationally watched congressional election in November. Frankel, a former West Palm Beach mayor seeking her fifth term in U.S. House District 21, beat newcomer Guido Weiss by a landslide to win the Democratic nomination. Frankel captured 86.40% of the vot

BEST OF THE WEB: Fascism on the march: Ireland put back into lockdown

100+Signs of the Times - Best of the Web / 15h

The country is in a battle to stop a slide back to lockdown after Covid-19 restrictions were introduced to limit the movement of young and old. Comment: "A slide back into..." Help, we're sliding! We can't stop ourselves imprisoning everyone over a benign virus. Send money, muzzles, and vaccines... Vulnerable people and those over 70 will feel the brunt of the new rules but families and those invo

BEST OF THE WEB: Has Sweden beaten C0VlD? One death so far in August, no lockdown, no masks

100+Signs of the Times - Best of the Web / 18h

Can it be? Is it true? With the relentless almost word-wide hysteria around you know what, how is it that Sweden is doing so well doing so little? Are those Swedes, unlike the rest of us just, somehow, Covid-resistant? Or have their policies of just letting the virus take its course proven the policy of lockdowns, masks, social distancing just a load of pure bull?

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Suicide prevention has a systemic racism problem. Here's how to fix it.

1KMashable / 15h

Since George Floyd 's tragic death at the hands of a Minneapolis police officer in May, entire fields have confronted — willingly or not — their track record on diversity, equity, and inclusion. That reckoning has come to Wall Street , Silicon Valley , and Hollywood , and shaken industries like professional football and basketball , journalism , and classical opera . Something similar is happenin

BlackBerry 5G smartphone with physical keyboard is coming next year

BlackBerry Keyboard 2021

1KMashable / 11h

BlackBerry has risen from the ashes again. When BlackBerry Mobile's partnership with TCL ended in February , the brand's survival as a phone maker seemed in jeopardy. But now it has a partnership with OnwardMobility and Foxconn subsidiary FIH Mobile Limited. The three companies announced Wednesday that they are releasing a 5G Blackberry phone with a physical keyboard. There are no other details a

Chocolate 'snow' falls on town in Switzerland

65Unexplained Mysteries / 14h

Residents of the Swiss town of Olten were perplexed to discover cocoa powder falling like snow from the sky. There have been many reports of strange t...

Massive sinkhole swallows up cars in China

41Unexplained Mysteries / 8h

Almost two dozen vehicles disappeared beneath the ground after a sinkhole opened up in China this week. The idea that the ground can suddenly give way...

The Golden Age of Computer User Groups

cryptogon.com / 6h

Via: Ars Technica: The Homebrew Computer Club where the Apple I got its start is deservedly famous—but it’s far from tech history’s only community gathering centered on CPUs. Throughout the 70s and into the 90s, groups around the world helped hapless users figure out their computer systems, learn about technology trends, and discover the latest […]

Researchers Can Duplicate Keys from the Sounds They Make in Locks

cryptogon.com / 14h

Via: kottke: Researchers have demonstrated that they can make a working 3D-printed copy of a key just by listening to how the key sounds when inserted into a lock. And you don’t need a fancy mic — a smartphone or smart doorbell will do nicely if you can get it close enough to the lock.

NEWS

Russiagate Was Not a Hoax

Senate Trump Russian

51KThe Atlantic / 11h

Rereading the Mueller report more than a year after its publication is an exercise in disappointment. One gets the feeling that Robert Mueller didn’t press his inquiry to its end. Instead of settling the questions that haunt the 2016 campaign, he left them dangling, publishing a stilted document riddled with insinuation and lacunae. He rushed his work, closing up shop before finishing his assignm

Germans must walk their dogs twice a day, new law will say

27KThe Guardian / 12h

Minister to introduce law next year to ensure nation’s 9.4 million dogs get enough exercise Germany’s dog owners will soon to be ordered by law to walk their pets twice a day. The country’s agriculture minister, Julia Klöckner, has said she is introducing the new law based on evidence that many of the nation’s 9.4million dogs are not getting the exercise or stimuli they need. Continue reading...

Senate Intelligence report reveals a vast network of — yes! — Trump-Russia collusion

Senate Trump Russian

15KSalon.com / 10h

Bipartisan committee finds a massive conspiracy of dunces and dupes. Does anyone really think Trump didn't know?

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez accuses NBC of spreading misinformation after DNC speech

16KThe Guardian / 12h

Congresswoman says NBC tweet about her endorsement of Bernie Sanders ‘sparked an enormous amount of hatred’ Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez accused NBC News of spreading an “incredible amount of damage and misinformation” overnight on Tuesday after the network construed a routine procedural speech by her as a snub of the Democratic presidential nominee, Joe Biden. Speaking on the second n

Long-Haulers Are Redefining COVID-19

17KThe Atlantic / 14h

Editor’s Note: Editor’s Note: The Atlantic is making vital coverage of the coronavirus available to all readers. Find the collection here . Lauren Nichols has been sick with COVID-19 since March 10, shortly before Tom Hanks announced his diagnosis and the NBA temporarily canceled its season. She has lived through one month of hand tremors, three of fever, and four of night sweats. When we spoke o

Trump Administration Plans Arms Sale to U.A.E. Despite Israeli Worries

7KNYT > World News / 1h

The Trump White House is quietly planning sales of F-35 stealth fighters and advanced drones to the Emiratis as part of a wider plan to realign the Middle East, but Israel and Congress may object.

SCIENCE

Mother bats use baby talk to communicate with their pups

1KPhys.org / 10h

When talking to babies, humans slow down their speech, raise their pitch and change the "color" of their voice. This 'baby talk,' as people know it, increases the infant's attention and facilitates language learning. Among animals, mothers often engage in pup-directed vocalizations too, but does this also imply voice changes? A team of scientists that included Smithsonian Tropical Research Institu

Watch SpaceX boat catch falling payload fairing in giant net (video)

9KSpace.com / 13h

SpaceX just plucked another payload fairing out of the sky, and you can see video of the dramatic cosmic catch.

Kepler's supernova remnant: Debris from stellar explosion not slowed after 400 years

300+Phys.org / 4h

Astronomers have used NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory to record material blasting away from the site of an exploded star at speeds faster than 20 million miles per hour. This is about 25,000 times faster than the speed of sound on Earth.

Astronomers bounced a laser off a spacecraft whirling around the moon

7KSpace.com / 10h

That's one precise laser shot.

Asteroid Makes the Closest Earth Flyby a Space Rock Has Ever Survived

1KScientific American / 9h

The car-sized object zoomed by just 1,830 miles away -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

How to make your own disinfecting wipes

500+Popular Science / 9h

If you're making one of each kind of wipe, make sure you label them. You really don't want a 70% alcohol solution on your baby's skin. (Sandra Gutierrez G. /) Follow all of PopSci ’s COVID-19 coverage here , including tips on cleaning groceries , ways to tell if your symptoms are just allergies , and a tutorial on making your own mask . Shortages have been a big side effect of the pandemic. They

VETERANS TODAY

In Mysterious Incident US Military Lost Two MQ-9 Reapers Over Idlib

Veterans Today / 3h

…from SouthFront.org The shaky stability established in Syria after the end of the Turkish attack on the Syrian Army in Idlib in February and March of 2020 has collapsed. Just a day after the confrontation between the US military and the Syrian Army in the province of al-Hasakah, US troops deployed at the Koniko gas […]

Senate Intel Report, Vol. 5: Trump lied, Manafort spied, Democracy nearly died

Veterans Today / 7h

Jim W. Dean - Whatever the Russians may have done pales in significance to what Israeli offensive Intel operations have done.

Lincoln Project: The GOP Mainstream’s War on Donald Trump

Veterans Today / 8h

Weird stuff.

NY Times: COVID Creating a Wave of Heart Disease

Veterans Today / 8h

NY Times: SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes Covid-19, was initially thought to primarily impact the lungs — SARS stands for “severe acute respiratory syndrome.” Now we know there is barely a part of the body this infection spares. And emerging data show that some of the virus’s most potent damage is inflicted on the heart. […]

Breaking: FDA Halts Use of Blood Plasma in COVID Treatment

Veterans Today / 8h

WASHINGTON (New York Times) — Last week, just as the Food and Drug Administration was preparing to issue an emergency authorization for blood plasma as a Covid-19 treatment, a group of top federal health officials including Dr. Francis S. Collins and Dr. Anthony S. Fauci intervened, arguing that emerging data on the treatment was too […]

How to Tell Legit Stem Cell Therapies From Scams

Veterans Today / 9h

How to sort the scientifically legitimate from the dangerous.

YOUTUBE

The Secrets of El Castillo | Buried Truth of the Maya

National Geographic (uploads) on YouTube / 12h

Two National Geographic Explorers enter the Mayan Pyramid, El Castillo, in search of a hidden entrance to an underground cave. While inside they explain the significance of jaguar throne and human sacrifice. ➡ Subscribe: http://bit.ly/NatGeoSubscribe About National Geographic: National Geographic is the world's premium destination for science, exploration, and adventure. Through their world-class

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Recruiting Women for Office: Why Is it Still Necessary? | 100 Years After Women's Suffrage

National Geographic (uploads) on YouTube / 7h

Of the more than 12,000 U.S. lawmakers who have served in Congress since 1789, only 366 have been women. This conversation about the importance of recruiting women into politics was originally livestreamed to the National Geographic Women of Impact Facebook Group on August 12, 2020. PANELISTS: * Mallory Benedict, photo editor at National Geographic (moderator) * Congresswoman Brenda Lawrence (D-M

Fortnite vs Apple: App Store Royale

The Verge on Youtube / 12h

Fortnite has been kicked off both the iOS App Store and the Google Play Store, after a growing dispute between Epic Games and Apple and Google. But the roots of the dispute go back to Steve Jobs and the origin of the App Store model -- a model Epic is now trying to overturn. Subscribe: http://goo.gl/G5RXGs Like The Verge on Facebook: https://goo.gl/2P1aGc Follow on Twitter: https://goo.gl/XTWX61

Note 20 Ultra review: big phone, small updates

The Verge on Youtube / 1d

Samsung's Galaxy Note 20 has nearly every top-end spec you could ask for on an Android phone, including a massive 6.9-inch high refresh rate 120Hz screen. The camera system fixes what was wrong with the S20 Ultra. And Samsung Notes is ...really good? It's really good, especially with the S Pen stylus. Read the full review here: https://bit.ly/3aEOkwv If you buy something from a Verge link, Vox Me

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Israel bombs Gaza after warning Hamas it risks war

26KAL JAZEERA ENGLISH (AJE) / 16h

Hamas said Israeli warplanes and drones struck several posts and facilities belonging to its armed wing.

Pakistan will not recognise Israel: PM Khan

10KAL JAZEERA ENGLISH (AJE) / 6h

Imran Khan remarks days after a US-brokered deal between UAE and Israel to normalise relations.

Inside the Endless Nightmare of Indefinite Detention Under "Civil Commitment" - After serving their criminal sentence, these men discover their punishment may never be over.

300+In These Times / 9h

In June 2019, after serving more than 29 years in Illinois prisons, Otis Arrington expected to be released to freedom: He had finished his time, which he describes as difficult and traumatic, and his exit date was pending. But three days before he was slated to get out, Arrington says he was informed that he would, instead, be placed under a new form of confinement—one with no end date, meted out

Dido Harding: A Case of Failing Upwards

100+A Very Public Sociologist / 3h

The longer this government is in office, the more egregiously corrupt are its dealings. And we're not even 10 months into this parliament, yet. Appalling mismanagement and cruel politics is one thing, but handing out nice contracts and plumb jobs to your mates is something else. Which brings us to the case